Hating America : The New World Sport

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Summary: Looks good to me--listen up hysterical leftist!
Review: Have not quite finished, but love it so far, and the comments from "bed wetting" libs of world powers like New Ze[ro]aland seem to make many of the book's points. You can also tell the book has struck a few nerves on the left by some of your reviews from our AINOs (American in name only). Some of us just love to be hated by Old Europe and their former colonies, who seem to still be under their "smell". It is hard to put the book down! I especially liked the analogy to sports "hysteria" where the selecting of a team has less to do with winning or losing than the colors, etc.--hysteria comes to mind, and remember it is mostly a female problem!

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Summary: The TRUTH is EXPOSED here with brutal honesty
Review: I LOVED this book. I thought it gave the proof needed to back up what we Americans already know, most of the world hates us. I am OK with that, but I wish that these 'hate nations' would just have the courage and honor to say it, not slink around behind our backs, plotting to destroy our way of life.

I lived in England for 12 years, so I have seen the jealousy, masked as hatred of the only Super Power, first hand. What most of the US bashers fail to acknowledge is, they too could be a Super Power, if only they allowed their country to live with the freedom, education, community & equality that we Americans live with (& most take for granted) every day.

Whatever these hater mongers say about us, it will not change the fact that America gives more aid & charity, to more countries, then the rest of the world COMBINED!!!!!!! We ARE a kind and generous nation, regardless of what these hate mongers preach.

France talks a good game about caring for the world, but they dont put their money where their mouth is; I believe it is because France would cease to exist in modern terms, if they didnt have America to kick in the ankles & slander, in the hope of more oil for food dollars & special favors, only afforded to Saddam's closest allies!

I never cease to be amazed at the ungrateful attitude of countries like France, Russia & Africa (just to name a FEW). Who flew air raids during WW11 to liberate who, who fed the masses of starving Russian people, people who were waiting for HOURS for 1 loaf of bread? Who provides 70%, yes, 70% of ALL the aid to Africa? AMERICA, that's who, yet these nations are so bitter about their own nations failings, that they project their own failures on to the US, BLAMING the US for the state their countries are in.

I think that Susan Norton wrote a beautiful & truthful review. I have rarely heard anyone put into words, so eloquently, the root of the hatred & jealousy. I believe this is because the Aussies are a country of hard working, hard fighting & hard living pioneers. This country has taken the opportunity to better themselves, instead of wasting all their time looking for someone to blame for it's failures. Way to go mate, I could have scarcely stated it better myself.

I think if you are looking for the truth behind the bitter insults, this is a great book to read. John Gibson has done a great job here & I for 1, would like to thank him for his courage & brutal honesty.

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Summary: A PARANOID BOOK
Review: Another paranoid book by the Fox News Gang! So the rest of the world is "hating America" as a form of syndrome without any rational cause! This is insane.

The rest of the civilized world hates the United States because, under GWB, it has become an international bully that respects no law and no treaty, and uses military power indiscriminately against populations in other countries. There are two examples in the last century when the world rose in anger against such behavior: 1- When Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded Poland and Czechoslavakia in the 1930's and when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary and Czechoslavakia in 1956 and in 1968. Then, the United States was still part of the civilized world and it vehemently opposed these aggressions.

Now that the U.S. is behaving just as the Nazi and the Soviet empires, it should surprise no one that the world is opposing American imperialist and militarist adventures around the world. A truly educated journalist would understand that. But John Gibson is part of the pro-war propaganda machine and he does not.

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Summary: Ideological dishonesty
Review: Apparently, Americans haven't been told how great America is, so we've got to be told how horrible other countries are and how morally bankrupt these degenerates are for not liking our superior economy and culture.

John Gibson, if you don't know, is FOX's not-so-moderate answer to CNN's Lou Dobbs, and I honestly haven't read the whole book, I did see the shameless one hour self-promotion of 'Hating America' on Gibson's show which drove the thesis home enough for a review: People Don't Like America because of our freedom and economy.

Now, at least the Wahabi-Muslims don't like America, but there's a cultural disconnect we Yanks don't see from our insulated cable and network news. You see, they tend not to like us because we support their dictators who of course, aren't 'Freedom' fanatics. Mubarak, Suad, Musharraf, Saddam, Karimov, The Shah, Suharto, etc. the list goes on all have or had warm relations with the White House. The 9-11 hijackers didn't attack the Statue of Liberty (we ironically, closed it for a long while) but the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, symbols of our military and economic prowess. True, some want us dead period, but they're a small minority. Most just want us out of their land. Wahabists don't want U.S. bases near Mecca or Medina, they don't want us to support Israel at the expense of the Palestinians, they don't want us using them as cheap labor hubs, they don't want foreigners taking their oil wealth, they don't like the fact that the modern borders of their lands were drawn by westerners and enforced by Westerners (i.e. Iraq & Kuwait in '91), they don't want the IMF and World Bank dictating how their economies and governments should be run, especially when the money goes to dictators and U.S. corporations, etc. You can't just have the glib excuse of them hating us because we're us. That may have a small inkling of truth but don't conservatives like Savage, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Cheney, hate them for who they are as well? Arabs and Muslims are dubbed by the right to encompass a 'Culture of Fear' and make up an 'Islamo-fascist' State.

That's just one example, the tried and true anti-French rhetoric is there I think officially repeated by the right for the 10 millionth time is the phrase "We saved them from despotism in World War II." Yep, we saved them once, so that means they should permanently shut up about our affairs. Sure, they helped us become a nation during the Revolutionary war, gave us the Statue of Liberty, sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lives in WWI, gave us the Louisiana purchase for cheap, and many of our forefathers adapted the ideals of freedom and philosophy from France's best revolutionary minds, have been a stable trading partner with us for decades, had countless Yankee directors rip off their best cinema, but that's beside the point! The rest, if you're an uber-nationalist Bushophile you'll like and strap on the ideological blinders, if you're on the left you'll hate it and won't even bother reading this or the book. So wait, why did I write this? Oh, yeah, it was a horrible example of one-sided journalism. And to thimk Rather got canned for so much less than what most people on FOX get away with all the time, take a look at Gibson and his very few sources and quotes made deliberately out of context.

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Summary: Another Faux News "Reporter"
Review: Another Faux News "Reporter" doing a faux book on a faux story?
How original!
Are there some people in the world that hate America? probably. But my guess is they love our freedom, but dislike some of our policies, like invading sovereign nations and killing thousands of civilians. Buy this book if you can't think critically, have no sense of history, believe FoxNews is balanced, and am sure that Bush43 is God's second begotten son.


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Summary: THE TRUTH ABOUT ANTI-AMERICANISM
Review: Oh dear oh dear. Wipe the rabid spittle from your mouths and calm down. NO ONE IN EUROPE HATES "AMERICA". The only people we hate are the conniving conservatives and the slack jawed moronic "patriots" who squeal so childishly when ever any one points anything out about America that they don't like.

Over there a lot of you seem to have a misunderstanding of how democracy works in other parts of the world. Opposition and criticism is the defining element of democracy. The idea is to oppose the ruling government in order to define a common policy, and move forward. Without two points of view, (ie pro-iraq-war and anti-iraq-war), there is NO DEMOCRACY, only TOTALITARIANISM! Any one who opposes or criticises the US government, over there or over here, is doing so because it is their political right to do so. It's for your own good. And then you all just start yapping that every one hates you. Pathetic. SO pathetic! Can't you see that? Some people hate this childish pathetic "patrotism". Some people hate the fact that democratic debate is crushed as your disgraceful government turns everything into an attack on america. People weep that you are so misinformed, uneducated, lied to, manipulated. Most people just laugh at you. It's not your fault, you're only a yank.

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Summary: Excellent Book Documents and Ananlzyes Hatred Toward US
Review: Gibson's book documents the bitter and resentful attitude many nations have toward the U.S. Most of us are aware that France and the Arab nations despise the U.S., but Gibson documents the awful attitudes of the Canadians, Germans, and Belgians. Even Britain struggles to remain supportive of America.

Gibson offers proof of this hatred through quoting the leaders of these nations and citing example articles from major newspapers and publications in those nations.

His analysis of why other nations hate the U.S. is straightford: jealousy, envy, arrogance (especially France) and fear of being left out of decision making. In his last chapter, "They're Wrong, We're Right. Get Used to It" Gibson summarizes: "In fact, fun is a major element of anti-Americanism around the world. People love hating America. It makes them feel better about themselves; it gives them a villain to root against."

This book is definitely a good read!

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Summary: Hating America is a sorry excuse for journalism
Review: Potential readers might find this re-posted op-ed from expat author D.A. Blyler helpful. It deals with John Gibson's "Hating America" TV Special which was based on the book.

'Hating America'

By D.A. Blyler | RAW STORY COLUMNIST

Last Sunday the Fox News Channel unleashed its special "Hating America." Unlike the usual spunk and pap served up daily by FNC, the program was a riveting hour of cable news television, hosted by the unimpeachable John Gibson, who earned his journalistic chops reporting on the vagaries of the O.J. Simpson trial.

The French were singled out as leading the race in the hate games against America. And for all those who still held any doubt about where French sympathies lie, Gibson and his team put that issue to rest. In an alarming segment, exclusive footage was shown of an unidentified street in Paris, where folks were sitting around in cafes and going about their business on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This news-reel was contrasted with shots of New York City, where it appears every road in Manhattan was shut down by weeping throngs of mourners. Having spent more than a few weeks in France over the years, I might add that not only do the "frogs" frequent sidewalk cafes, drinking Pernod and engaging in other anti-American activities, every September 11th, but also on the anniversaries of the storming of Normandy, the Treaty of Versailles, and even their very own Bastille Day. Friends of freedom they are not.

John Gibson also reminded viewers that a Frenchman (Thierry Meyssan) was to blame for all those conspiracy theory websites and water-cooler kooks who argue that the Bush administration may have had prior knowledge, or actually a hand, in the U.S. terror attacks so they could set up a fascist state at home while engaging in imperialistic ventures abroad.

Thankfully, the program omitted mentioning that senile writer Gore Vidal and his hysterical essay "The Enemy Within." Published in some underground yellow rag called The London Observer, the essay was likely read only by a few drunken Brits on the dole. And, let's get serious. We certainly don't need to highlight those degenerate Americans, like Vidal, who are so pretentious as to live abroad while criticizing us back in the States.

Thanks to Michael Moore's footage of Bush in an elementary school classroom on the day of 9/11, we've heard countless unfair jokes about the president and "My Pet Goat." But in "Hating America" John Gibson revealed that a "scapegoat" is what George W. Bush truly is, a scapegoat for all the jealousy, envy, and hatred foreigners have for the United States. Viewers were warned not to buy in to that leftist propaganda about people hating the administration but still liking us as a people. When you see protests abroad where Europeans are carrying signs with a bastardized visage of our president, it might just as well be the Statue of Liberty they're disfiguring so hatefully. That protesters never seem to actually put Lady Liberty on their vile signs is only because our president's photo is so much easier to find on the Internet.

If anyone doubts the level of hatred foreigners have for America, it should be noted that in writing the book "Hating America," upon which the TV special was based, Gibson felt so personally threatened as a United States citizen that he didn't dare to walk the streets of any foreign capitals to mix it up with the locals, drink a brewski, and chat about life as we know it. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology he was able to assess the entire situation from the safety of the FNC offices.

So is all hope lost? Is America condemned to being hated ad infinitum? Well, Gibson's program wisely reminded viewers that millions around the globe still dream of landing on our shores to till the amber waves of grain or open a 7-11. Sure, it has been a long time since a Norwegian applied for a green card. But the fact that so many would-be immigrants now come from Central America and South-East Asia (where unfortunately we killed a few million women and children in unprovoked U.S. military excursions) should prove once and for all just how attractive we really are to ourselves.